The system, with the help of sensors attached in the handle and edge of the door, will calculate the distance of the car with other vehicles or any other object. It will also determine the angle of the open door.ETAuto | December 14, 2016, 12:46 IST

NEW DELHI: British luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover has filed patent for a new technology that will prevent car doors from hitting nearby objects, thereby avoiding any chances of dent on the vehicle body.

The system, with the help of sensors attached in the handle and edge of the door, will calculate the distance of the car with other vehicles or any other object. It will also determine the angle of the open door.

In case of an upcoming collision, the system will alert the driver for the same, and in some case the door may not even open to avoid any sort of hitting. Jaguar Land Rover's this technology, which is right now in its prototype phase, will also alert the nearby pedestrians that the door is about to open.

This new technology is somewhat similar to the one used in Tesla Motors' first all electric SUV Model X which prevents its Falcon Wing doors from opening up into its nearby objects. However, some owners of the SUV later complained that the Falcon Wing doors don't always open or close.

Prices of most SUVs were cut between Rs 1.1 lakh and Rs 3 lakh following the implementation of GST, which subsumed over a dozen central and state levies like excise duty, service tax, and VAT from July 1.